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> To be fair, the key difference is that these guys got away with it.

The other difference is that "these guys" didn't do anything else but find the evidence they needed to prove the types of spying the FBI was up to.

It's not as if they copied out all of the FBI file cabinets and only then revealed evidence of spying, along with disclosing lists of known Soviet spies under watch by the FBI.



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